Taipei Times
Date: Apr 25, 2019
By: Staff writer, with CNA

Former US secretary of health and human services Tom Price is to arrive in Taiwan on Sunday to speak at a workshop on tuberculosis organized by Taiwan and the US, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.

Price, who headed the department from February to September 2017, is to attend the opening ceremony of a four-day Global Cooperation Training Framework workshop titled “International Workshop on the Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis” on Tuesday next week.

Established in June 2015, the Global Cooperation Training Framework supports bilateral cooperation in international public health, humanitarian assistance and other global issues in the Indo-Pacific region.

Price has long supported Taiwan’s participation at international events and he expressed US support for the nation’s participation at the World Health Assembly (WHA) when he addressed the assembly in 2017, the ministry said.    [FULL  STORY]